Artist's depiction of Lake Calumet Harbor based on improvements suggested by the Van Vlissengen Plan c1920. View looks east toward Lake Calumet, Calumet River runs left to right near the top of the image. Pullman and West Pullman communities are...

Electronic pathways: the Illinois State Museum in the Information Age; Log Jam on the Embarrass: an image from the Museum's Ridgway Archives; The Beauty of Bones, part two: human osteology and the lifeways of the historic Illinois Indians; A small...

Illinois is prominent in the early history of the West. Concise descriptions of places, historical facts, and biographies of living persons with close relations to the state. Illustrations include portraits, maps and buildings.

Papers, Addresses, Reports: Recent Developments in the Chemistry of the Rare Earth Group (Address of the Retiring President); The Significance of the Conservation of Land Resources; Classification of Illinois Lands; Soil Erosion Control...

Papers, Addresses, Reports: Treasurer's Report; Resolutions Presented at the Harrisburg Meeting; The Making of Southern Illinois; Does Infant Welfare Work Operate to Preserve the Unfit?; The Origin of Man; Investigations of Agricultural Soils...

Republic Steel plant on the east side of the Calumet river. View toward SSE. Calumet River at right of picture. Turning Basin #3 at top right. Published in the East Side Commemoration booklet, "History and Progress of East Side 1851-1951 July...

An early version of the 106th Street swing bridge across the Calumet River, looking northeast, c1912. Note the electric trolley crossing the bridge and, far in the distance, Gallistel School. At right is the Keystone grain elevator. The bridge...